Sunshield with depending visor



May 19,1953 Kjemnmfl 2,638,593'

SUNSHIELD WITH-DEPENDING: V1508 Filed April 19, 1951 2 heets-Sheet 1FIG. 3

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tempie extensions int jgra-i; 7 da d to S a t w s s t m lesf xdfea sawhereinaglare eliminatingvisor;p eferab I j lightpolarizing material, issupported 31 the peak in poste bei e th eresrofai a e f, the un; shield;wherein the visor is deta connected to thepeak insuch a nianner th I p Jthe f ak i c e t to). p m". P sitio n O t e. sunshi'eldon" awe'arershead "causes" he isorto: assume a face-contorrni i and he v r poperi s t r U ien-t'e1ement; foreXam i a sprin tens; se ia edi ith't iedge f e temple'extensionsof the sun s l t e eldti .P QQL-PQS a head. i

Oth'enobjectsLoffthfil vex.m en; will rr tianrhe obvious and will'ifi'pt appear'hereina'ft'erz Theximzention accordingly comprises an articleof manufacture possessing the features, propereand lati a e ements thatw ltbaQXemplified in the article hereinafter described andthe scope ofthe-application of which willb'eindicated in the-claims.

Eorae fuller understandingi-ofithe nature-and obj .ects of theinvention, .reterenceishould flo had tov the; following. i detaileddescription taken in connection: with the accompanying drawingswherein-i Figure 1. is a perspective view 'of the sunshieih of thepresent invention initheposition in whih it is worn;

Fig.2 is a plan view of thatportion of the eunshield-forming thepeaklandternple-shieldiiigew tensions;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the depending glareeliminating visor;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the peak and visor elements assembled;

Fig. 5 is a view in section along the median line of the sunshield ofthe present invention; and

Fig. 6 is an enlarged, fragmentary view of a portion of the device shownin Fig. 5.

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. l el cet t ess ot "i r arzxt i is K roughly Ul:shap'ed, and comprises?a adap n pos i ned ab ve aters a t iz ald mz o .earw re r k ndm rt m ienplii il'and u per arwa d ya si wea ers ea s d thus provide,pro tec ,nfor gtriem The edge .oflthe neri ber'zt e; theied coinesnin contact witiLth "we rerjs"facaisiprei erablyf roughly ,ell'ipticaliinj shape; the"disti lnfce I l' i.,.bemg

between the ends of'the tempiasli e mewh t at rithan th i th headilso;that as thetedge I6 is broughtintojcon tact with fe ifleaiei srforeheadKand templesgthje element 5' curved,.as shown tor example in Fig,

from the .line of; its contact with the v.Weare a "te m e-- mi daadiacendlf i mounting a resilient adgrippinguelementwhich u aorhsaMm siti, ista nsh e d tas ir rt :W w s ade tt 'eembqd t i t e inventinn sho tin,thGgdI Za WiIIgS t resilient eadee peiterelm t m et s w If r-e tt e a becoveredwith melt wa er ide i r 2 c nt h i the eaner "h ad The? glaremriseneota fla l seem fixamh ease t e hemat te-it angle of substantiallyto the upper edge 28 of the visor so that when the visor is swung intothe 3 glare-eliminating position illustrated in Figs. 1 and the axis oftransmission will be substantially 90 to the horizontal.

The upper edge 28 of the visor 22 may be roughly arcuate in shape ormore preferably it may be shaped to provide three angularly positioned,relatively straight edges, a central straight portion above thenose-spanning portion 26 and two angularly positioned straight portions,one adjacent each edge of the visor. The upper edge 28 of the visor 22is also provided with a pair of locking tabs or extensions 30, 32 whichare adapted to be inserted in slits 34, 36

in element [0, as shown for example most clearly in Fig. 4. The slits34, 36 are preferably so spaced that the visor 22 may lie flush againstthe element l0 when the latter is in flat, uncurved position, as shownin Fig. 4, and under these circumstances the visor 22 will extendrearwardly and toward the edge ii of the element It). The slits 34, 36and the locking tabs 30, 32, which are adapted for insertion therein,are preferably angularly positioned with respect to one another so thatas the element It] is curved to conform to the shape of a wearers headand the visor is swung into lowered or depending position, the tensionon the visor 22 maintains it out of contact with the element I0 and inthe depending position shown most clearly in Figs. 1 and 5, in whichposition the visor conforms approximately to the curvature of thewearers face. In this position the short straight portions of the upperedge 28 of the visor 22, which are adjacent the locking tabs 30, 32,remain in contact with the under surface of the peak l2 whereas thestraight central portion of the upper edge 28 of the visor 22 is spacedfrom the under portion of the curved peak I2 and thus provides aventilating aperture or gap, as shown for example in Fig. 5.

If the curvature of the depending glare-eliminating visor 22 is toapproximate the curvature of the face of a wearer of the sunshield, andthis is a preferred condition, the slits 34, 36 and the tabs 30, 32should be angularly positioned so that the angle between each slit and aline joining the centers thereof and the angle between each tab and aline joining the centers thereof is between 25 and 30".v

If desired, a supplemental pair of slits 38, 40 may be provided so thatthe glare-eliminating shield may be positioned at a different distancefrom the wearers face, and if these slits are positioned at differentangles to each other than are the slits 34, 36, the curvature of theglareeliminating visor may be altered by insertion of its locking tabsin the supplemental pair of slits.

When the sunshield is not in use the glareeliminating visor may be swungupwardly to the position shown in Fig. 4, in which case it will lieflush with element Ill and thus permit stacking of the sunshields foreasy handling and shipment, even though the resilient element l8 remainsin place and causes the element 10 to take the curved position shown inFig. 1.

Since certain changes may be made in the above article of manufacturewithout departing from the scope of the invention herein involved,

it is intended that all matter contained in the above description orshown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrativeand not in a limiting sense.

What is claimed is:

1. A sunshield comprising, in combination, a body member comprising apeak portion and integral, rearwardly extending temple shields, shapedto provide a head-engaging edge, a resilient wire-like head-grippingmember detachably aflixed to the head-engaging edge of said body memberfor causing predetermined curvature of said peak portion anddisplacement of said temple shields towards one another and intohead-gripping position, a transparent visor having selectivelight-transmitting properties,

and means afiixing said visor to said body memher to depend therefrom inface-conforming curvature before the eyes of a wearer of said sunshieldwith its upper edge spaced rom said headgripping member and with itslower edge substantially in engagement with the wearers face, when saidsunshield is in position on a wearers head and to lie closelythereadjacent with its lower, face-engaging edge positioned rearwardlyand adjacent the head-engaging edge of said peak portion when saidhead-gripping member is removed.

2. The sunshield defined in claim 1 wherein said visor is afiixed tosaid body member by a pair of spaced locking tabs extending from theupper edge of said visor and engaging angularly positioned slitsprovided in said body member.

3. The sunshield defined in claim 2 wherein said slits make with eachother an angle of the order of 125.

VAITO K. ELORANTA.

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